Examination

May 22, 2008

By Emily C., Wilton, CT

The final breath flees worried lips as the thin white sheet flutters to Finality: lead bards acting as flimsy representatives of their unsure intellect... An intelligence they begin to doubt as they realise they should have exchanged one answer for another; A code of currency many of these arrogant scholars have yet to translate. But they walk away, gathering a's and b's in their threadbare pockets... and hoping they might interpret correctly the next time around.

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